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I am pleased as punch (whatever that means) to share the first episode of The AWS Report with you! In the inaugural episode, I interview Rob Frederick, Co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based Gripwire: Future episodes will feature interviews with members of the teams that bring you AWS, as well as more interviews with startups and […]

Nihar from the CloudFront team is back, with another live streaming option for Amazon CloudFront! — Jeff; Flexibility is one of the key benefits you get with AWS you can use our services either stand-alone or together in a building-block fashion, you choose which operating system to use with Amazon EC2, the type of origin […]

Today, Nihar Bihani of the Amazon CloudFront team is back again, with another guest post. — Jeff; Today, Id like to tell you about two different ways weve improved our live streaming solution. But before I dive into whats changing, I want to start by calling out some things that are staying the same. Our […]

We’re very pleased to welcome the 1000 Genomes Project data to Amazon S3.  The original human genome project was a huge undertaking. It aimed to identify every letter of our genetic code, 3 billion DNA bases in total, to help guide our understanding of human biology. The project ran for over a decade, cost billions […]

The Amazon Web Services are now available in an ever-expanding series of locations. You’ve asked us to make it easier to build applications that span multiple AWS regions and we are happy to oblige. Today I’m pleased to announce that Amazon Route 53 is making available the same latency based routing technology that powers Amazon […]

Backup and Recover On March 29th I’ll be covering the topic of backup and recovery of on-premise and cloud-based Linux systems. I’ll cover a number of topics including creation of file archives, uploading to Amazon S3, and managing permissions and lifetimes. I will present a roundup of applicable backup and recovery tools and will do […]

I’m pleased to announce that the AWS Storage Gateway is now available in our South America (So Paulo) Region.  The AWS Storage Gateway service connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to integrate your existing on-premises applications with the AWS storage infrastructure in a seamless, secure, and transparent fashion.  As I wrote in my […]

We launched Amazon DynamoDB in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region less than two months ago. At that time we committed to making it available in additional Regions as quickly as possible. I was in Japan last week for the first JAWS-UG (Japan AWS User Group) Summit Meeting. At that meeting we celebrated the one […]